The diary seemed to look beyond Elixir, toward his next venture. The first entry began with him sitting in a plush chair at home, listening to the musical score from Blade Runner (track twelve, “Tears in Rain,” on continuous repeat). Much as Stanley Kubrick inspired a young Yann LeCun in the late ’60s, Ridley Scott had captured the imagination of a young Hassabis in the early ’80s with this latter-day sci-fi classic, in which a scientist and his imperious corporation build machines that behave like humans.
